Project Details
Digitisation of the historical newspaper “„Germania: Zeitung für das deutsche Volk“ (1871-1938)”
Applicant
Karsten Labahn, since 10/2019
Subject Area
Modern and Contemporary History
Communication Sciences
Communication Sciences
Term
from 2019 to 2023
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 422727535
The project is integrated in the national program „Digitisation of Historical Newspapers in the German-Speaking Areas”. The aim of the project is the digitisation, the generation of metadata and fulltext and the open-access online publication of all issues of "Germania", altogether 38 years with about 285,000 pages. The project will provide a historic newspaper for academic research that has been identified as a “the first party newspaper of the Zentrum” (i.e. the German Catholic Centre Party) and a “main organ of the Centre Party policy”.
DFG Programme
Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
Ehemaliger Antragsteller
Professor Robert Zepf, until 9/2019